Monday, July 22, 2013

Harvest Monday July 22, 2013

It isn't much, but I did get one harvest on Saturday when I got back. A few beans, two unfertilized zucchini. I don't think I'll even bother to do a tally this week. I'm hoping the garden will get back into production this week.

I did technically harvest my onions last week, but they are curing right now and don't get added to the tally until they are done.

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

The female fruit has a tiny little zucchini before it is fertilized. They are only about three inches long (though the size varies, I've had 2" and 6" ones in the past). As you can see they are shorter than my beans are. They are quite tender and tasty.

Sorry, my last comment made zero sense when I posted it. Your onions look fantastic! We will be a while yet with ours because they got in so late, we have our fingers crossed that they will actually bulb up and give us something more that green onions.

I picked a number of unfertilized zucchini last year from the Cocozelle plant. Some of them reached a nice size and were very good, something between a zucchini flower and fruit. Sounds like a great trip to Alaska.

I've always wanted to visit AK, sounds like an awesome trip! I've never thought of picking an unfertilized zucchini, although I usually don't realize that they are unfertilized until they are shriveled up and rotting.

Lovely onions - mine were late planted (as with everything this year!) so aren't even slightly ready yet. Found your Harvest Monday through Matron at Down at the Allotment. Lovely to have found your blog! I love a good gardening read!!

About Me

I've been gardening for almost three decades now, ever since my husband and I bought our first house. Every garden has been different. The first was small and the soil was almost pure sand. The second was larger and I had heavy clay. The third and current one which is just outside of Boston, is by far the largest even though the lot is by far the smallest. Since we bought the house new, we designed the landscaping ourselves, and the soil we added was fairly good. My challenge here is the location. We are so close to our neighbors that their houses can shade the garden.